Mini Art Quilt

I’ve been working on the mini art quilt for the Craftster swap that I’m in.  I stripped white-on-white pieces for the background, and then I stripped pinks, blues and yellows for the appliqué flowers.  I got the flowers cut on Monday and started sewing them down to the background.  It’s pretty slow sewing because of all of the curves of the flowers.  The stems look really cute.  I straight stitched the stem part and zig-zagged the leaves.

My partner pm’d me yesterday and let me know the quilt she made for me is finished, but she’ll wait to send it until the 1st because she wants to show it off some more before she sends it.  I told her I hoped to send early, too, but I’m not sure when that will be.  We can wait and send at the same time if she wants.

I’m mostly worried about the actual quilting part.  I know I want to stitch in the ditch on the background, but I’m actually not sure how to do it…  do I knot the ends?  I’ll have to figure all of that out.

ANOTHER Seizure!

Yesterday, the doorbell rang.  Of course, the dogs all rushed the door.  Before I could get to it, I heard some flopping and skidding on the hardwood.  I immediatley knew it was a seizure so I rushed into the kitchen (rather then the door).  Imagine my total surprise to find STUART in mid seizure!  I scooped him up and got him to the couch (screw the doorbell!) and held him while he convulsed.  It didn’t last long, but it was a hard one.  He threw his head back and his eyeballs looked like they were going to pop out of his head.  It was horrible.

 

I hope he doesn’t start having them regularly.  His last one was January 14.

 

I never did find out who was at the door.